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Affiliate programs for sneaker and streetwear creators
Every rate on this page comes from the program's own page or its network's rate card, read on 12 October 2026. Where a program publishes no rate, we say so rather than fill the gap.
Part of: For creators
Sneaker and streetwear links run through three kinds of program: the brand's own (Nike), multi-brand retailers (DICK'S Sporting Goods, Foot Locker, Woot!) and marketplaces (StockX, eBay). Nike, Woot!, StockX and eBay publish a rate on their own pages. DICK'S and Foot Locker do not, and DICK'S says its terms are shown during the application.
The inventory is not where the brand names suggest. When we searched CJ's US product feeds on 2 September 2026, multi-brand retailers led by DICK'S, Hibbett and Woot! each carried more matching listings than Nike's own program did.
What the programs publish about their own terms
Each row is taken from the program's own public page, or its network's, as it stood on 12 October 2026. Where a page gives no rate or window, this one gives none.
| Program and network | Published rate | Cookie or referral window | Who gets in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nike (US), through CJ Affiliate | Up to 15% on valid US sales; rates vary by partner, and some products, such as gift cards, earn nothing | Seven days | Each application is reviewed for site traffic, aesthetics, content quality, audience fit and fit with the Nike brand; free to join |
| DICK'S Sporting Goods, through CJ Affiliate | None on its page, which promises “competitive commission rates”; the terms are shown during the application | None on its page | Sites relevant to its products with no objectionable content, sending traffic to US websites only; free to join; no commission on a returned or charged-back order |
| Foot Locker (US), through Impact | None on its page | None on its page | Anyone with a website Foot Locker approves; free to join; approval comes by email |
| Woot!, through CJ Affiliate only | Base rates of 2% on computers and electronics, 10% on its Shirt section and 4% on everything else | None on its page | US residents only; Woot! keeps the right to change or end the program at any time |
| StockX, through Impact | Sneakers, streetwear and collectibles: 3% for new customers (first-time purchasers), 1% for returning customers | 15 days, if your link was the last one clicked | Each application is reviewed for fit with the StockX brand. Both StockX pages were last updated on 6 August 2020 |
| eBay Partner Network | 4.0% of the sale on clothing, shoes and accessories, with earnings capped at $550 per transaction | A Buy It Now purchase within 24 hours of the click; a bid placed within 24 hours counts if it wins within 10 days | Not stated on the rate card, which allows exceptions to its rates for some partners |
| Hibbett and the other feed advertisers | Not verified | Not verified | Hibbett's affiliate page could not be read on 12 October 2026; read the terms inside the network before you apply |
Payout thresholds sit with the network rather than the program. StockX's FAQ says Impact pays out monthly once a balance reaches $50, but that page was last updated in 2020, and impact.com's help center now puts its minimum payout threshold at $10. A program page can stay up long after its network's terms have moved on, which is one more reason to read terms at the source on the day you apply.
Where the linkable inventory sat
On 2 September 2026 we searched CJ's product feeds for sneakers and streetwear, filtered to advertisers registered in the United States, and kept every row that returned a usable price. The six queries are listed under Method and scope.
This is a sample of one network's catalogue on one day, not a census of the market. It tells you which programs held inventory a sneaker or streetwear creator could link, not what any of them pay.
- Many advertisers carried at least one matching US listing.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods, Hibbett and Woot!, all multi-brand retailers, each held more of the rows than any other advertiser.
- Nike's own program held a small share of the rows, and every one of them was an Air Jordan 1.
- Some Air Jordan 1 listings already carried a sale price below their own list price.
Read this as a hint about which programs can supply what you post about. A high rate only pays on what you can link, and Nike's program held a small share of the rows in this search.
Keep reading
Where the real rate lives
A published rate is a ceiling or a starting point, not the number in your agreement. Nike says its rates vary by partner, eBay's rate card allows exceptions, and DICK'S own page and Foot Locker's publish no rate. DICK'S also lists a program on AvantLink, whose public page showed 9.25% with a 14-day cookie when read on 12 October 2026. Its own page points to CJ Affiliate instead, so check which network your application goes to. We hold no network approvals, so we cannot see the rate any partner is actually offered. What we can do is tell you where it lives:
- The network's program page for that advertiser. Once you are logged in to CJ, Rakuten, Impact or Awin, each advertiser's page carries the current rate table — including the split by product category that a blog post will always flatten into one number.
- The rate is usually a table, not a figure. eBay's rate card sets its percentages by category, and Woot! pays its Shirt section at a different rate from everything else. Footwear, apparel and clearance often pay different percentages at the same retailer, and sale items sometimes pay nothing at all.
- Read the cookie window in the same place. The windows published above run from 24 hours at eBay to 15 days at StockX. A high rate on a one-day cookie can be worth less than a modest rate on thirty days, depending on how your audience buys.
- Screenshot it with the date. Rates change without an announcement, and a dated screenshot of your own is the only version you can check a dispute against.
Choose by price band, not by brand
The useful axis is not brand prestige, it is price. Every rate published above is a percentage of the sale, so the price of what you link sets your ceiling as much as the rate does. In the September feed search the bands looked like this.
The volume band
- Graphic tees and Woot!'s streetwear rows sat at the low end of the search.
- These convert readily and pay little per order. They suit frequent posting, not a monthly haul.
The sneaker core
- Air Jordan 1 listings and varsity jackets sat in the middle of the range.
- Most sneaker content sits here, and here the gap between two programs' rates shows up on every order.
The thin top end
- A few advertisers, Daily Drape and Jomashop among them, priced their streetwear above the sneaker core.
- Fewer orders, much larger ones, and far more exposed to returns: DICK'S pays no commission on a returned order, so one return in this band undoes more than one in the band below. eBay also caps what a single transaction can earn.
Our editorial read: a creator posting sneakers should apply to the two or three retailers holding the deepest catalogue in their price band before applying to a single brand. Brand programs look better on a media kit and stock less of what you can actually link.
What this page cannot tell you
Stated plainly, because the pages competing with this one do not state it at all:
- It is not your rate. The rates above are what each program publishes for everyone. Nike's is a ceiling that varies by partner, and the rate you are offered appears inside the network once you apply.
- Published terms age. Both StockX affiliate pages were last updated in August 2020, and the payout threshold in its FAQ differs from what impact.com's help center says today.
- It is not an approval forecast. Holding inventory is not the same as accepting you. Nike reviews each application for traffic, content quality and audience fit; Foot Locker takes sites it has approved; DICK'S accepts only affiliates sending traffic to US websites; Woot! is open to US residents only.
- The keyword match is loose. CJ's keyword search is generous; our filtering removed posters, books and canvas prints returned for the Air Jordan query, but a sample built this way always carries some noise.
- Non-US storefronts leak through a US filter. Rows from Macy's Canada, Macy's AU and J.Crew Canada appeared despite an advertiser-country filter set to the United States. If you build links programmatically, check the destination domain rather than trusting the country field.
- Feed prices are list prices. When we re-read the same searches on 28 September 2026, some advertisers' selling prices came back below their list prices, and several of the larger advertisers were not in the feed that day at all.
- Feeds carry nonsense rows. REVOLVE's feed returned an Air Jordan row and a track-pants row at prices no product carries — obvious data faults, not products. If you build a storefront from a feed, look at every row you publish.
- It is one day. Feeds are re-pulled constantly. Treat 2 September 2026 as the date the inventory points were true, and 12 October 2026 as the date the terms were read.
Frequently asked
Which affiliate programs have the most sneaker inventory?
In our 2 September 2026 search of CJ's US product feeds, multi-brand retailers led by DICK'S Sporting Goods, Hibbett and Woot! each carried more matching sneaker and streetwear listings than Nike's own program did.
What commission do sneaker affiliate programs pay?
Only some publish one. On 12 October 2026 Nike's US page said up to 15% on valid US sales, varying by partner; StockX's page, last updated in 2020, lists 3% for new and 1% for returning customers on sneakers and streetwear; Woot! lists 2% on computers and electronics, 10% on its Shirt section and 4% on everything else; eBay Partner Network's rate card lists 4.0% on clothing, shoes and accessories. DICK'S Sporting Goods and Foot Locker publish no rate on their own pages.
Is it better to link a brand or a retailer?
Retailers carried far more linkable inventory than Nike's own program in our September feed search. Brands often price higher, which lifts order value but narrows what you can link, and Nike reviews every application for traffic, content quality and audience fit.
How long is the cookie window on sneaker affiliate programs?
It depends on the program. Nike's page says seven days. StockX's says 15 days, provided your link was the last one clicked. eBay's rate card counts a Buy It Now purchase made within 24 hours of the click. DICK'S Sporting Goods, Foot Locker and Woot! state no window on their own pages.
Method and scope
- Program terms: read on 12 October 2026 from each program's own affiliate page (Nike, DICK'S Sporting Goods, Foot Locker, Woot!, StockX), from eBay Partner Network's rate card, from AvantLink's public program page for DICK'S and from impact.com's partner help center. Each is linked below.
- Inventory points: CJ product feeds, queried live on 2 September 2026 with advertiser country set to the United States.
- Queries: air jordan 1, nike dunk, air force 1, varsity jacket, track pants, graphic tee. Rows without a usable price, and rows from CJ's demo advertiser, were dropped.
- Prices in the feed are list prices as the feed reported them, not transacted prices.
- No rate on this page is our estimate. Each is the program's or network's own published figure, dated by when we read it.
Sources
- Nike Help: Nike Affiliate Program — network, application review, the US rate and its conditions, cookie duration and joining fee. Read 12 October 2026.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods Affiliate Program — network, eligibility, US-only traffic, fees, returns and when the terms are shown. Read 12 October 2026.
- AvantLink: DICK'S Sporting Goods — the commission and cookie duration on AvantLink's public program page. Read 12 October 2026.
- Foot Locker: Affiliate Program — who can join, fees and sign-up through Impact. Read 12 October 2026.
- Woot Affiliate Program — eligibility, network and base commission rates. Read 12 October 2026.
- StockX: affiliate program and StockX: affiliate FAQ — rates by customer type, the referral window, Impact, payout and review; both last updated 6 August 2020. Read 12 October 2026.
- eBay Partner Network: Rate Card — qualifying transactions, and the category rates and caps in the rate table on that page. Read 12 October 2026.
- impact.com Help: Get Paid as a Partner — the minimum payout threshold. Read 12 October 2026.
- CJ Affiliate product feeds, US advertisers, queried 2 September 2026 — six sneaker and streetwear searches; the inventory points above.
Last verified 2 September 2026 against live US sneaker and streetwear listings pulled from CJ product feeds. Program terms were read separately, on 12 October 2026, from the pages under Sources.
How this page was made. Drafted with AI (Claude); not yet independently re-checked. How we work